The prices here are around $3.57 a bushel which aint to bad, not as good as last year but not bad at all. I know in southern michigan around Kalamazoo rain was a real factor, we have plots south of Adrian and they were drought stressed badly.

 

Cool, Im working on my masters right now. Will be looking for another school to work on my Ph.D. in the next year in plant breeding. Im just not sure if I want to stay in the major row crops, or switch to vegetable.

 

Yields for us were between 165 and 185, wich is pretty good considering the lack of moisture we had. We plant all DeKalb corn and it all came out of the field below 17% moisture and between 58 and 61 pounds. The cash bid today at our local co-op is $3.63. Sold some soybeans today for $10.18, boy that feels good.

 

Yessir,.....We been seein' a rite purty good "Yield" outta our corn crop 'dis year ourselves.......Now get outta here.........

 

Ed,
Where did you get a picture of my family?

 

Despite some dry weather, our yields (near Wapakoneta, OH) were really good. Corn was approximately 185 dry bushels averaged over 600 acres. We had a good little bit of 33T55, and it did really well for us. I can see us planting a good share of it next year. Give me a 108 day that I should try-I have many friends that are Pioneer dealers that have told me about F95 (I think that is the last 3 characters). Our soybeans (both first and double crop) were excellent, and I have thoroughly enjoyed selling $10+ soybeans lately. Wheat yields were also good. All in all a pretty good year in western OH.
On another note to you and Aggie06, congratulations on your schooling decisions and future careers in agriculture. I received my undergrad at Ohio State and my masters and doctorate at Purdue in Plant Physiology/Mineral Nutrition in 2004. The best thing I ever did-especially now that I am finished.

 

Aggeie06,
I dont know if you have a plant genetics background or not,but the breeder at our research station brings in over 100k a year with his Phd in gentics.

Kess,
I have some family out by Celina, I dont know if their is an F95 I know we have an F85 which is a new line. I'll pm ya monday when I get back to my desk and look at our numbers and yield trials.

Eric

 

Thats about par from what I have heard. I know a few people starting out at 80k+ just graduating with their Phd. Im working on my masters in plant genetics right now. From what I have heard, the market for plant breeders is always good.

 

I would have to agree. You could get a job with just about any company. Most of them are more than willing to set up a program for you if you can bring in the $$$$.

 

Hahaha. That's the only "corn" we'll see in this part of Cain-Tuck too.

I could plow tree to tree and not touch what some of these guys have in one patch!

I'll have to stick to tobacco until somethign else comes along.

 

Is this the recombinant DNA?

My sister just got her Phd from Cornell this summer in the plant area. I remember her telling me about taking the dna strands, splitting them, then adding in this or that to make them less suceptable to viruses.

Pretty cool stuff.

 

My boss just graduated from Cornell as well. Must be a good school.
I graduated from Ohio State in June 2007. Most of the corn we deal with is recombinant, where someone has inserted a trait from another species. BUt we dont do that where I work. That happens in labs in Maryland and Delaware.

 

Im not in a program that does biotech. stuff. We mainly do classical plant breeding. However, I may be looking into a molecular program, but I am not sure yet. I really don't want to become a lab rat. I would rather be in the field.